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Bruce Hodges @brucehodges.bsky.social · Feb 10

Crowds and fireworks at Broad and Spruce, Philadelphia

#GoBirds🦅

Aerial shot of post-Super Bowl crowds in Center City, Philadelphia, near the intersection of Broad and Spruce Streets

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H e t e r o t o p ia @artsofexistence.bsky.social · 3h

"You must go on. I can't go on. I'll go on.”
― Samuel Beckett, The Unnamable
#BookSky

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ricfrophoto.bsky.social @ricfrophoto.bsky.social · 1d

#abstract #abstractart #geometricart #abstractartwork #composition #geometricartwork #colurs #structure #geometric #mixedmedia

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Michael J Wilson @wilsonmj.bsky.social · 4h

Shakespeare is at is best when you mostly ignore the metre in favor of just doing the thing.

chira 🎋 @artofchira.bsky.social · Jun 1

whenever i encounter people who say they can't understand shakespeare verses I always send them this clip from the 2019 Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing

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chira 🎋 @artofchira.bsky.social · Jun 1

whenever i encounter people who say they can't understand shakespeare verses I always send them this clip from the 2019 Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing

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chira 🎋 @artofchira.bsky.social · Jun 2

the full production is available to view on archive.org

archive.org/details/xebp...

Great Performances - Much Ado About Nothing : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

For the first time in over four decades, Great Performances presents a Public Theater production recorded live at Free Shakespeare in the Park. After a highly...

archive.org

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Charlie Knight [they/them] | Editor / Author 📚 @cknightwrites.bsky.social · 1d

You know the voice in the back of your head that says no one wants to read your book?

Drown it.
Burn it with fire.
Get a bat and start swinging.

Don't let it exist and lie to you. Destroy it and keep writing.

Keep. Writing.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 4h

he does not regret to inform you and neither do I

Willamette Week @wweek.com · 4h

Jack Dickinson, 26, says “we’re winning this.”

An Interview With the Portland Chicken

Rachel Saslow

www.wweek.com

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Not Invented @notinvented.bsky.social · 8h

We need to stop the riots in Portland spreading to nearby cities, such as Starboardland, Aftland and Bowland.

I am therefore banning not just Antifa, but Antidoh, Antirey and Antimi. And any other terrorist organisations created by Julie Andrews.

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SK @sk-76.bsky.social · 20h

New York (1942)

Photo: Helen Levitt

A young woman sits on the lap of an older woman, possibly her mother, and has her arm around her. They are outside of a building with lots of scrap and rubbish around them. The older woman is leaning on the rim of an open barrel.

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Laurent Peraldi @tintamarre.bsky.social · 10h

Le bœuf sous le toit

Roy De Carava

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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 5d

Just wild sown 200 hundred acorns

Picked up in local paths where there was no chance of a future, & placed in areas where they have every chance

Within every acorn there is a potential forest

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Citizen Screen @citizenscreen.bsky.social · 14h

Ida Lupino on Movie Stars Parade Magazine in October 1941

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Wallace Polsom @wallacepolsom.bsky.social · 15h

Gag cartoon by W. Heath Robinson published in The New Yorker, March 21, 1925, p. 8. Caption: “The New Tonic for Those Who Are Losing Weight.”

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Wendy O'Rourke @wendyo.bsky.social · 8d

The Canadian Architect magazine, October 1966

Cover by László Buday

Geometric abstract design featuring interlocking cubes in primary colors against a shaded white background.

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old fruit pictures @pomological.xor.blue · 4d

decarie apples, painted by royal charles steadman, 1919

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Bruce Hodges @brucehodges.bsky.social · 16h

What a flurry of early 20th-century illustrations, all gems. This one might be my favorite, from a time when cigarettes were considered glamorous.

Thank you for unearthing these, and posting them here.

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Susie M @wrathofgodherself.bsky.social · 20h

Can a person ever have too many pencils?
No.
Pens?
No.
Drawing pads?
No.

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Susie M @wrathofgodherself.bsky.social · 16h

'Billy Flea'
Coming soon to a boarding-house/bed-sitting room near you.

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 1d

What will it take for regular people to understand that if they refuse to stand up against fascism they will not be spared? Fascism is a serial killer with no restrictions on who it targets.

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Susie M @wrathofgodherself.bsky.social · 17h

The wise grasshopper grandpa

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Susie M @wrathofgodherself.bsky.social · 17h

'Oblige me with a light'

Firefly cigarettes, c 1900-WWI

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Wurmpth Furdber @purelava.bsky.social · 1d

Prepared a piano with one of my students tonight. Making new avant garde music fans over here.

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Aaron Cynic @aaroncynic.bsky.social · 1d

At least a thousand but most likely more folks marching in Chicago to protest the deployment of the National Guard and continued ICE raids. Chanting "whose city our city!"

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 1d

What Governor Pritzker is doing is right for his state, but it is vital for the Republic.

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Bruce Hodges @brucehodges.bsky.social · 1d

A classic for a reason, now over 75 years old and with resonance for today. For the reprint, two or three years ago, the magazine commissioned a chillingly calm photo by Garrett Grove: under an idyllic blue sky, viewed from a distance, a group of townspeople gather, as if for a birthday party

The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 1d

Shirley Jackson’s short story from 1948, which inspired the most mail The New Yorker had ever received in response to a work of fiction—and caused some readers to cancel their subscriptions.

“The Lottery,” by Shirley Jackson

Fiction, from 1948: “The people had done it so many times that they only half listened to the directions; most of them were quiet, wetting their lips, not looking around.”

www.newyorker.com

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